Birthday Quotes
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"Seventeen, eh!"said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred."Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?""Vaguely,"said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?""I forge’ the details,"Hagrid chortled."
"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth."
"My girlfriend bought me a collared shirt for my birthday, mainly so I don’t get too far ahead of her when she takes me for a walk."
"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."
"It doesn’t take a hurricane to blow out a birthday candle. Let this be a lesson in love—and cake etiquette."
"A nugget of wisdom is more valuable than a nugget of gold—and considerably harder to pan out of a river. I’ll be 33 in March, and all I’ve found so far is fool’s gold. Still, I was able to trade it for political favors."
"I don’t remember my birth. I guess I got dementia at a young age."
"I’m an only child, and therefore I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me, they wouldn’t even be parents."
"The best birthday present I ever got from my grandpa was a skinny black tie. It didn’t come in a bag, a box, or even rolled up in tissue paper. It came wrapped in wisdom. As soon as he gave it to me he said, “A tie would make a stronger impression on your boss if you used it as a blindfold and kidnapped him. That‘s why I bought you a black one."
"Just to show my dad that I think he's number one, I bought him a urinal cake for his birthday."
"My birthday is on a holiday. I just have to wait until I die and they commemorate me."
"For your birthday I got you some batteries. They’re dead, just like you’ll soon be."
"Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in."
"I wrapped your birthday present in carpet, because I bought you a floor. It’s so you have something other than me to walk all over."
"We had a blast at my magical birthday party. There were midgets, fairies, glass slippers, and I actually got to ride in a pumpkin."
"On your birthday you should throw me a party. This is my advice for everybody, especially my clones."
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy started because of a thumb's up I gave to Douglas Adams on his birthday as I said, "Happy 42."#OutBoastKanye"
"My girlfriend just bought me a portable toaster. And my birthday’s coming up, so I’m half expecting her to buy me a portable bathtub to go along with it."
"One thought I think every person eventually thinks is, “Holy shit, I’m going to die!” Sorry, I just turned thirty yesterday, so my mortality is on my mind."
"Jarod Kintz Day—it’s not just my birthday, but it should be a holiday that’s mandatory to celebrate, punishable by death if you don’t. It’ll be a holiday that honors freedom."
"A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life."
"The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me."
"We can live forever even with an impactful shorter-life."
"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new."
"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"
"I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'"
"Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love."
"You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'"
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."
"I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake."
"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday."
"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."
"The only thing better than singing is more singing."
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."
"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words."
"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."
"We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be."
"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."
"If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same."
"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present."
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
"Like many women my age, I am 28 years old."
"I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does."
"Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time."
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
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